Author Topic: escaped rabbits! Taken advantage of? (Read 17402 times)

little blue · « **Reply #30 on:** August 03, 2011, 04:14:43 pm »

congrats on number one!
hope all is well

melodrama · « **Reply #31 on:** August 03, 2011, 11:03:58 pm »

I've lost my cable to attach my phone to the computer to show you a pic but I'll figure out an alternative tomorrow - the baby is gorgeous though, quite plump and cosy to the touch. Mum has covered the baby in hay and fur to keep it cosy and it is moving around quite a lot and is still warm to the touch so I am hoping it stays that way - I am so excited though because I have never even seen a baby rabbit before and it is gorgeous! Very happy bunny - and the rabbits seem happy too ha ha

little blue · « **Reply #32 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:07:52 am »

Quote from: melodrama on August 03, 2011, 11:03:58 pm

and the rabbits seem happy too ha ha

well yes, they had their fun... nothing like a bit of rough!!

melodrama · « **Reply #33 on:** August 04, 2011, 09:24:48 am »

I am sad to say that the little baby rabbit died overnight. I then double checked this morning and there is a nest with another 3 babies in it quite a way away from where this baby was. I wish I had looked earlier but you live and learn. Fingers crossed for these 3 x

little blue · « **Reply #34 on:** August 04, 2011, 10:23:15 am »

sounds like she'd removed this one from the nest then, nothing you can do once mrs rabbit has made that decision.
good luck for the other three, try not to get too close as she'll object to the "human" smell on them
( I don't mean to imply that you are only "human" in quotes, sorry!!)

we've lost lots of kits, and I'm sure some were through our over - interfering...

confused · « **Reply #35 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:34:24 pm »

I would'nt touch new born kits , i would wait until they were ready to leave the nest .

melodrama · « **Reply #36 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:36:50 pm »

I didn't touch them either, they just didn't make it. I made a point of not interfering at all so that my scent wouldn't get on them - feel sad though, none of them made it